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Essay What Does It Really Take to Write a Dissertation? Earlier this week, Beth Kissileff mused on the final Biblical commandment — to write. With the release of her novel Questioning Return, Beth is guest blogging for the… Beth Kissileff October 26, 2016
Essay It’s No Accident the Final Commandment Is to Write Beth Kissileff is the author of Reading Genesis and a new novel, Questioning Return. She is guest blogging for the Jewish Book Council all week as part of the… Beth Kissileff October 23, 2016
Essay Uh, Five Reasons My Book Was a Year Late Earlier this week, Marjorie Ingall wrote about stepping out of ghostwriting to write her first book since 1998. With the publication of that book, Mamaleh Knows Best:… Marjorie Ingall August 31, 2016
Essay A Ghostwriter, on Being Visible Marjorie Ingall is a columnist, ghostwriter, and author of Mamaleh Knows Best: What Jewish Mothers Do to Raise Successful, Creative, Empathetic, Independent… Marjorie Ingall August 29, 2016
Essay 30 Steamy Stories and Corned Beef on Rye Cindy Silvert is the author of The Hungry Love Cookbook: 30 Steamy Stories, 120 Mouthwatering Recipes. She is guest blogging here all week as part of the Visiting… Cindy Silvert June 27, 2016
Essay The Jigsaw Puzzle of Writing without an Outline Earlier this week, Jeff Gottesfeld shared how a news story about a dead tree inspired his first children’s book, The Tree in the Courtyard. Jeff is guest blogging… Jeff Gottesfeld June 16, 2016
Essay How a Dead Tree at 263 Prinsengracht Sparked a Movement — and a Children’s Book Following Anne Frank’s birthday over the weekend, The Tree in the Courtyard author Jeff Gottesfeld is guest blogging for Jewish Book Council all week as part of the… Jeff Gottesfeld June 14, 2016
Essay Writing in Between Whatever Earlier this week, Sophie Cook shared the how her family’s heirloom furniture inspired her first historical novel, Anna & Elizabeth, while she was still in… Sophie Cook June 8, 2016
Essay Everything Is Fresh and New Barbara Kreiger is the author of The Dead Sea and the Jordan River, a chronicle of the natural and human history of two of the Middle East’s most iconic bodies… Barbara Kreiger April 29, 2016
Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist Adam D. Mendelsohn Jewish Book Council is proud to introduce readers to the five emerging nonfiction authors named as finalists for the 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.… JBC Staff April 8, 2016
Essay “Where Should the Story Begin?” The Worlds of Holocaust Graphic Memoirs Earlier this week, Tahneer Oksman traversed the depictions of space in women’s graphic memoirs included in her book “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and… Tahneer Oksman April 7, 2016
Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist Yehudah Mirsky Jewish Book Council is proud to introduce readers to the five emerging nonfiction authors named as finalists for the 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.… JBC Staff April 5, 2016
Essay Drawing a Room of Her Own With the recent release of her book “How Come Boys Get to Keep Their Noses?”: Women and Jewish American Identity in Contemporary Graphic Memoirs, author (and frequent… Tahneer Oksman April 4, 2016
Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist Aviya Kushner Jewish Book Council is proud to introduce readers to the five emerging nonfiction authors named as finalists for the 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.… JBC Staff March 30, 2016
Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist Dan Ephron Jewish Book Council is proud to introduce readers to the five emerging nonfiction authors named as finalists for the 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.… JBC Staff March 24, 2016
Interview Meet Sami Rohr Prize Finalist Lisa Moses Leff Jewish Book Council is proud to introduce readers to the five emerging nonfiction authors named as finalists for the 2016 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature.… JBC Staff March 23, 2016
